NorthTec and Te Hiku Media enter into a new partnership

5 September 2013

NorthTec and Te Hiku Media enter into a new partnership

NorthTec and Te Hiku Media have entered into a new partnership to deliver the Foundation Studies Media Skills (Level 2) course in Kaitaia starting on Monday 9th September.

“This course is part of a kaupapa that Te Hiku Media are working on with NorthTec. It is a strategic relationship working towards positive shared outcomes in the long term,” says Peter-Lucas Jones, General Manager Te Hiku Media.

The new collaborative venture will be run at the Te Hiku Media premises and will allow students to be able to work on ‘real’ projects such as Radio and TV productions - many being of their own choice.

The Fees-free course will have an intake of around 30 students who are Whānau, Hapū and Iwi members from Te Hiku o Te ika and they will be welcomed with a pōwhiri on Monday.

The course will run from 9 September until 20 December and one day a week the students will be integrated into the existing media work-streams of Te Hiku Media, gaining real life experience.

“We delighted to enter into such an agreement with Te Hiku Media, especially being able to deliver this course in Kaitaia at ready-made facilities to provide hands-on experience for students,” says Jess Kean, NorthTec’s Deputy Director for Creative Industries and Humanities.

This course is designed to give participants a qualification which is a pre-requisite to entering the Level 6 Diploma in Video and Electronic Media.

Course content will include theory, and practical exercises related to the Media Industries of Radio, Film and TV, while developing skills in work readiness such as time management, communication, personal presentation and independent learning and thinking skills. Students will enhance their skills in writing and literacy which will include production planning, research and script-writing skills development. Alongside that they will be taught numeracy skills which will include the creation and management of media budgets, and programme scheduling.

Content will also include NorthTec’s ‘Flax Roots’ Video course, where students are introduced to and learn hands-on Production skills including: Research, Script and Proposal writing, Production Management, Camera, Lighting and Editing.

At the end of the course successful participants will graduate with the NorthTec Certificate in Foundation Studies (Level 2), giving them the pre requisite for entry on to other programmes.

“We hope that this arrangement leads onto other such joint ventures with Te Hiku and other Hapū and Iwi in the Northland,” says Mrs Kean.

NorthTec is the Tai Tokerau (Northland) region's largest provider of tertiary education, with campuses and learning centres in Whangarei, Kerikeri, Rāwene, Kaikohe and Kaitaia. NorthTec also has over 60 community-based delivery points from Coatesville in rural Rodney to Ngataki in the Far North.

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